Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20090480
Revision Date:2009-05-13Version:643
Title:RHSA-2009:0480: poppler security update (Important)
Description:Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

  • Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in poppler. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179, CVE-2009-1187, CVE-2009-1188)

  • Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in poppler's JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-1182)

  • Multiple flaws were found in poppler's JBIG2 decoder that could lead to the freeing of arbitrary memory. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-0166, CVE-2009-1180)

  • Multiple input validation flaws were found in poppler's JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-0800)

  • Multiple denial of service flaws were found in poppler's JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash when opened. (CVE-2009-0799, CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1183)

    Red Hat would like to thank Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team, and Will Dormann of the CERT/CC for responsibly reporting these flaws.

    Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2009-0146
    CVE-2009-0147
    CVE-2009-0166
    CVE-2009-0195
    CVE-2009-0791
    CVE-2009-0799
    CVE-2009-0800
    CVE-2009-1179
    CVE-2009-1180
    CVE-2009-1181
    CVE-2009-1182
    CVE-2009-1183
    CVE-2009-1187
    CVE-2009-1188
    CVE-2009-3604
    CVE-2009-3606
    RHSA-2009:0480
    RHSA-2009:0480-01
    RHSA-2009:0480-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
  • AND
  • poppler is earlier than 0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9
  • AND poppler is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • poppler-devel is earlier than 0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9
  • AND poppler-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • poppler-utils is earlier than 0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9
  • AND poppler-utils is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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